How to create a POST/PUT/PATCH request without a content type?
sriedel opened this issue · 5 comments
To aid in debugging with curl, I want to block incoming http requests which are expected to have bodies, but do not provide a content type or the wrong content type, and provide a helpful message, instead of having the person come to me claiming "everything is broken".
While testing the implementation, I seem to be able to test requests with "Content-Type : " (i.e. empty value). However I don't see how I can generate a request where the Content-Type header is not set at all, since it's defaulted to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' without an obvious way to circumvent this setting.
How can I test requests without a content type set?
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I ran into this as well. This line appears to set the default Content-Type:
Line 300 in 5b4bbff
I tried passing in a blank Content-Type. This works, but Rails will throw up an exception if the content_mime_type is ever accessed since a blank string isn't a valid MIME type.
I think you can currently handle this by specifying :input. However, in that case you have to provide your own body, rack-test won't generate a body for you. Will that work for your purposes?
I did try to specify :input, but Rails sanitizes the request_env: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/693c14c54d917fc86c9df2e0d6bf1f49d7e6f8ee/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/testing/integration.rb#L243-L279
If it would work with rack-test directly, but doesn't work with Rails, sounds like a Rails problem that should be discussed with the Rails developers